Archive for the 'Effects' Category

Create Vista-like Wallpapers with Fireworks

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I have noticed a considerable demand for a tutorial like this, so I’ve decided to give it a try. It’s not easy, and the result is not perfect, but its a good attempt nonetheless.

Create a Planet from scratch with Fireworks

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Draw a realistic enough picture of a planet in space completely from scratch with Fireworks. You don’t even need any images, its all there in your textures. This tutorial is inspired by this one.

Creating a Realistic Peelable Sticker Effect in Fireworks

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

A tutorial which will give you step-by-step instructions to create a peeling effect. Great for placing in a corner of a website to reveal news or offers.

Realistic 10-step 3D simulation with reflection in Fireworks 8

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Our first guest post is written by Lucian. Enjoy!
This tutorial will show how a realistic 3d shape, such as text, could be created in Fireworks 8, a 2d software.

Lens flare effects from scratch with Fireworks

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

This tutorial is inspired by this one, which was inspired by what the author found here. Basically you can take pretty much any good logo and add a nice glowy lens flare effect on it. Here the Wordpress logo will be used. I’m a Wordpress fan anyway. I’m going to show you how to do […]

Create Mac-like wallpapers with Fireworks

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Welcome to the very first tutorial of firetuts.com. I will show you how you can easily make one of those sleek abstract wallpapers you’ve probably seen before, with Adobe (or Macromedia) Fireworks. I shall give credit to Collis for the original tutorial for Photoshop. This tutorial, however, will also teach you a trick to […]